25 May
2010
25 May
'10
3:41 p.m.
On 25/05/10 19:35, Tony Duell wrote:
Quite apart from the fact that a first year studend
(particularly one in
a scientific or engineering subject) who sticks his fingers into a
working machine deserves all he gets.
Seconded.
But I have to say... some of the first (and second... and third) year
students on the BSc software development course I'm just finishing up
probably shouldn't have been there in the first place. Two got kicked
out in the first year for trying to pay other students to do their work,
one tried to use Rent-a-Coder in the second year, and don't get me
started on the folk who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag.
More fool them when they go to their first job interview.
"You have two threads running in parallel, and a single data structure
which both threads must be able to read from and write to. How do you
prevent data corruption in this structure when both threads try to
access it at the same time?"
"Uuuuhhhhh..... can I have the job now?"
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Phil.
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http://www.philpem.me.uk/